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Alec Munro

@alecmunro.bsky.social
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Antifa, Buddhist, Father, Settler. They/them. Alt text gets reposted. Building internet-native engineering orgs for three decades. Be kind, tell stories.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16h
Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”
phoenixnewtimes.com
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 6h
this has always been the way i approached programming and ummm working inside corporations was a rude awakening as was all the framework slop (the artisanal kind)
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 17h
before elections you should hold politicians accountable (including democrats) you should also do this at the height of election season and after elections you should do it all the time its your job as a citizen
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 9h
A real successful 1A day here on campus. Heavy hitters. Big student turnout. Engaged questions. My notes for the academic freedom panel is a sort of Cliff Notes of how I approach this thing. This is it. My whole talk.
Notes app reads: Neoliberalism weaponizes bias to justify austerity. Austerity creates corporate universities. Corporate universities are unhealthy organizations. Unhealthy organizations cannot inculcate or defend academic freedom. Without academic freedom to check administrative power,  corporate universities will translate austerity into financialized predation. Predation undermines public trust in higher education. Death spiral accelerates.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 10h
I hate living in a time where empathy is seen as a vice. Empathy is literally the most important virtue there is. Nothing else comes close.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8h
Fucking NYU canceled their appearance at our Community Board meeting set for tomorrow. These COWARDS.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 10h
One year after successfully halting Port Hawkesbury Paper from clear cutting a forest on Hunters Mountain in Cape Breton, Mi’kmaw land protectors and PHP are back, but this time select cutting under a new agreement with Mi’kmaw leadership in Nova Scotia.
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Mi’kmaw land protectors open to new initiative to protect Hunters Mountain | APTN News
One year after successfully halting Port Hawkesbury Paper from clear cutting a forest on Hunters Mountain in Cape Breton, Mi’kmaw land protectors and PHP are back, but this time select cutting under…
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Sahoni, Official Re(a)d Wolf @sahoni.bsky.social · 13h
When colonization came to call in the US, many folks wrote about america as a pristine Eden whose forest were filled with delights and bounty. This was because indigenous folk (Like mine) built up food forest. Things that were razed and destroyed as a part of racist violence. Colonization is ongoing
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Martha, but like, super spooky @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 13h
THERE. IS. NO. FINISH. LINE.
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Dan Moore @mooreds.com · 12h
Really enjoyed hearing @rude1.blacksky.team talk at #monktoberfest. He talked about building #blacksky and community more generally. Was a good one.
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Rep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social · 12h
Former Senate President Pro Tempore Sandra Cunningham was a true leader, public servant, and voice for the people of New Jersey. She will be sincerely missed. 🕊️ www.insidernj.com/rest-in-peac...
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Rest in Peace, Senator Cunningham - Insider NJ
Senator Cunningham served as a Hudson County lawmaker from 2007 to 2024. She was the wife of Jersey City Mayor Glenn Cunningham.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 16h
Following reporting from Erin In The Morning, the Equality Caucus has come out with a more forceful response against Democrat Marcy Kaptur's anti-trans ads. "This is a red line for us." The large Democratic caucus will not support her reelection. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Equality Caucus: Marcy Kaptur’s Anti-Trans Ads "Deeply Offensive," Will Not Support Her Campaign
"The Equality Caucus is not going to stand by passively and allow anyone to scapegoat the trans community. It is a red line for us."
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 15h
People do not understand how men who are white supremacists can have wives who are women of color and I need folks to realize that those men see their wives as subordinate property and not equals. These men are foaming at the mouth to bring back quadroon balls.
Screencap from Invincible: "I do love your mother, but she's more like a pet to me."
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 21h
BREAKING: ICE over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote. The internal documents, obtained by the Democracy Forward, showed that ICE's investigative arm also contemplated sending undercover agents to investigate the organizations.
democracydocket.com
ICE  probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.
The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.
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Gord Jorkins @nothinkyjustvibey.bsky.social · 17h
It was good that people stayed on him for this. He was probably going to get there on his own but it’s good and correct to never shut up about things. You should always be yelling at politicians even if you like them.
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Madisyn Parisi (they/them) @madisyn-writes.bsky.social · 17h
I've been dying to talk about "don't rock the boat" since I first played it over a year ago. This game is a transfeminine horror revelation, and I'm so glad I finally get to share my thoughts on it with all of you. Read my latest on Mothership for tentacle monsters, trans rage, and more.
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Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 17h
Managing up is corporate speak for topping from the bottom
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 19h
If you're willing to sell out trans kids for theoretical votes I have to assume you'd sell out anyone for theoretical votes, so, yes, I do think supporting sports bans means you get not a fucking thing from me.
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SCAREk LawHELLRAISER @rowdybowden.bsky.social · 18h
If you live near Philly, go see Mike's movie not because he's an extremely funny, thoughtful writer, but also because he needs this to be successful in order to fund his crippling addiction to overly neon novelty cocktails.
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𝔫𝔬𝔯𝔞 𝔫𝔢𝔠𝔯𝔬𝔰𝔦𝔰𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔢𝔯 🏳️‍⚧️ @neurosismancer.gay · 21h
YOOOO LETS FUCKIN GOOOOOOOOO
gothamist.com
NYC moves to spend nearly $9M of gender-affirming care fund for minors
The funding is part of a $15 million investment announced in June as major hospitals retreated from providing such care.
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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 20h
Teen: What do you think about the ID verification stuff? Me: I’ve been pissed for a year. I even made memes. I never make memes. Us:
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Sonic and Tails Epic Fist Bump
Alt: Sonic and Tails Epic Fist Bump
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Veni Kunche @veni.dev · 20h
Yes! Too many developers hide behind the technical details and don't think much about how their products may be negatively affecting real people. If they had, we wouldn't be in this state. It's not too late to think about what you're building and the impact it may have!
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 21h
It’s not better for the generations after us, who are watching every one of their career ambitions disappear in real time before they even get to start them There are students right now on their third or fourth change of major, as the funding keeps getting cut and the rugs keep getting pulled
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 06/10/2026
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Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services
Compromise of 3 domain registries allows hackers to walk off with unauthorized certs.
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Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
JULES VERNE'S TOMB (1907) The monument, created by sculptor Albert Roze, shows the writer as a #revenant or returner from beyond the grave, reaching towards the sky. Its face was modelled on his death mask. Image: Amiens, France. #WyrdWednesday
Jules Verne's tomb in France
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Gateway Health in Wangaratta has a free vending machine outside the front door for Narcan
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
they always show their asses eventually because the thing is that you cannot truly, sincerely care about women if you don’t care about trans women. the minute you carve off any one subcategory of women you claim are “lesser” in some way, you’ve declared women’s rights to be conditional by definition
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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Social scientists: Read this, share this. Some day it will be time to reconstruct the state, and rebuild its capacity... and should the people developing and directing that capacity want to be just and effective, they'll need insights provided by high quality social scientific studies.
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IGN @ign.com · 07/10/2026
The Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering teams at Wizards of the Coast have just announced they're unionizing. In a letter of demands, the union has urged Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast leaders to stop pushing generative AI. bit.ly/4hMhPzG
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 07/10/2026
Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps
getartcraft.com
Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools
Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
FUCK YES. This is the energy, morality, and courage that I expect from leaders. Unbelievably brave.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
These people will never change their minds or their ways. They haven’t for the entirety of history. They just keep remixing it or grassroots organizing when they’re weak until they can do what they’ve done which is make it possible that our highest government officials can recite Mein Kampf publicly
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
God everything is so DUMB.
United States
Attorney's Office
Southern District of New York

PRESS RELEASE
North Carolina Man Sentenced To 18 Months In Prison For Super Intelligence-Assisted
Music Streaming Fraud
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
when @letsgomathias.bsky.social pitched this to me, i knew it would be evergreen. but i didn’t expect it to be relevant already like four times in the less than two months since it was published.
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You don’t have to hand it to Richard Hanania
The so-called "former" white supremacist's work doesn't show accountability—or that he's actually moved on from his earlier views, Christopher Mathias writes.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I am crying 😂😂😂
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is why I hammer on getting good at sales so much for people who are doing something actually useful and substantive. The liars have such an advantage.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If anyone at Sanrio had any sort of compassion, they would make a spoof of the Lacoste polo with Big Challenges on the side just for me.
Sanrio's alligator mascot Big Challenges
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🔥 @katiephang.bsky.social (With Deniro behind her): “I’m suing A.G. Todd Blanche — Trump’s cosplaying personal lawyer — for the unredacted Epstein files… as an independent journo 🗣️ I don’t have a corporate oligarch telling me what to say… Trump has been violating federal law every day.”
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 07/10/2026
All of them have connections with Epstein.
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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 07/10/2026
The Kotick news is so dire this part didn’t even register at first. We’re truly entering the Insult-to-Injury era of the American entertainment industry’s destruction.
The Hollywood Reporter confirmed
Kotick's spot on the new board, which was disclosed in a new SEC filing, along vith philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs.
Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair also joins as a board advisor. "I am delighted to welcome Laurene and Bobby to our Board and honored to have Tony join us as an Advisor," Ellison said. "Bobby led a global…
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 06/10/2026
New York City, wetin dey sup? It was a joy to commemorate 34 years of the Nigerian Day Parade alongside the many Nigerian New Yorkers who fill our city with life.
Mayor Mamdani and community leaders speak from a stage / excited onlookers and parade attendees cheer.People dressed in green and white watch the Nigerian Day Parade.A woman holds and a child holding a tiny Nigerian flag.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
lol the rules shift every time achievement isn't cloaked in white.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Cornell University has retained former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates to lead a "comprehensive independent review" into how the school "prevents and responds to sexual harassment, sexual assault and related misconduct on campus.” abcnews.com/US/cornell-t...
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Cornell taps former deputy AG Sally Yates to lead independent review
Cornell University has retained former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates to lead an independent review of how Cornell responds to sexual assault cases.
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Farewell to Eva Marie Saint, the sharpest and sexiest of the Hitchcock blondes who got to wear one of the best dresses in cinema history
Full shot of Eva Marie Saint in NORTH BY NORTHWEST wearing the red roses dressSide mid shot of Eva Marie Saint in NORTH BY NORTHWEST wearing the red roses dress, sharing a drink with Cary GrantThe open back of the red roses dress
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
they’ll make them worse and more expensive though. also they’ll make them environmentally ruinous somehow.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.
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